adjudge
/ə'dʤʌdʤ/
Definition
- Verb:
- To declare or pronounce formally: To make an official or authoritative decision about something, often in a legal or formal context.
- To deem or judge: To consider or regard something in a specified way based on an assessment.
Usage
- Formal Declaration: Used in legal, official, or formal settings to state a judgment or decision authoritatively.
- Judgment of State or Condition: Used to state what one believes to be the nature or quality of something or someone.
Examples
- Verb:
- The court will adjudge the defendant not guilty.
- The panel adjudged her the winner of the competition.
- He was adjudged to be the rightful owner of the property.
Advanced Usage
- "to adjudge something to someone": To award or grant something to someone by formal decision.
- The arbitration tribunal adjudged the sum to the claimant.
- Passive Construction: Often used in the passive voice ("be adjudged") to describe the state resulting from a formal judgment.
- The law was adjudged unconstitutional.
Variants and Related Words
- Adjudicate (verb): To make a formal judgment or decision about a problem or dispute. (Often involves a more detailed process of examination than ).
- Adjudication (noun): The process of making an official judgment or decision.
- Adjudicator (noun): A person who adjudicates.
Synonyms
- Declare: To announce something formally or officially.
- Pronounce: To declare or announce, typically formally or solemnly.
- Rule: To make a formal decision or judgment, especially in a legal context.
- Deem: To regard or consider in a specified way.
Related Phrases
- To adjudge someone guilty/innocent: The formal legal declaration of a person's guilt or innocence.
- The jury adjudged the accused guilty on all counts.
- To adjudge something (to be) something: To formally declare something to have a particular quality or status.
- The manuscript was adjudged (to be) a forgery.
Verb
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declare to be
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She was declared incompetent
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judge held that the defendant was innocent
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